Marc Andreessen: prediction

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…The Biden AI directive, what’s the best thing about it? What’s the worst thing about it? The best thing about it is it didn’t overtly attempt to kill AI. That was good. You never know with these things, how much teeth they’re going to try to put into it. Then, of course, there’s always the question of whether it stands up in court. Look, there were things that were being discussed in the process that were much worse, and I think much more hostile to the technology, than ended up being in it. I think that’s good news. I think it was quite benign in terms of its just flat-out directives, which is good. People have different opinions. My opinion, the issue of it is, it green-lit essentially 15 different regulatory agencies to basically put AI under their purview in undefined ways. We will now have, I think, a relatively protracted process of many regulators or many agencies without explicit authority in the domain basically inserting themselves into the space. Then presumably, at some point, there will be a determination of who has purview over what, but it seems like we’re in for a period of quite a bit of confusion as a result. How much more green energy do we need to, in essence, fuel all of this AI, and where will it come from? What do you see the prospect is like for the next 20 years?…

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